In the Navy, I was stationed with one guy named Anchor and another named Saylor. There was also someone on the sub base in San Diego named Seaman. I envisioned her enlisting with “Major Major” syndrome and never getting promoted because the Navy only had one Seaman Seaman, and they weren’t about to let her go.
I also had a CPO named Peter Moss. Of course, we never called him “Chief Mulch” to his face…
I once bought a car from a Fred Zeplin. He didn’t like the band, I asked him. He didn’t like “that rock and roll”.
Saint Paul has a large Hmong (SE Asian) community, and Choua Her (Chew Her) is a common name.
There used to be a local guy with the last name Science. We used to call him while drunk. “Mr. Science…How many elements can be used to form swear words?” He was amazingly good natured about this.
I know of a woman named Ragina (rhymes with vagina). I also went to college with a guy named Dusty Trail . He has a sister named Sandy , and he married a woman named Wendy .
A friend of my family have the last name of Money (not Mooney but $). They have a son named Gambel Money. I went to school with Ricky Mooney. Everyone called him Mickey Rooney.
My parents are Bob and Bobbie and both have the same middle name (Lee) . My sister, Barbara, married Kenneth. So they are now Barbie and Ken.
My doctor in junior high was named Dr. Breaststicker, I kid you not. A little later our insurance plan changed and we got Dr. Midol.
I went to high school with a guy who moved from Canada named David Davidson, and there was a guy in my town named Thomas Thompson
I have a friend with the last name of Toker. One of her pot-smoking friends offered a decent bit of money for her highschool soccer jersey.
One of the voice professors at my school is Korean, his name is Youngsuck Kim.
And finally, there’s an East Asian girl at my college (not sure what specific nationality, I’ve never spoken to her but I checked out a library book to her once) named, in all seriousness, Yin Yang.
Bad names seem to run in my family…
I’m a Jon Thomas, my mother’s maiden name was Phyllis Butt, my grandmothers maiden name was Cox.
I also used to go to a doctor named Dr De’Ath, and there were various awful names at school…
Dick Hedley
Richard Cummings
Isaac Hunt (lucky he didn’t have brothers Mike and Yorick!)
I also knew a guy called Mick Hunt - “DO NOT CALL ME MIKE. EVER”
In college, the dean of our despartment was Professor Albert Pratt.
A Pratt.
His wife’s name was Iona, and no, she didn’t keep her maiden name, so God alone knows what that must have been to prefer Pratt
Then there is a guy called Pat McGee who works in our sister office. If he is ever on site here, the receptionist refuses to call him over the intercom.
(This may only appeal to Irish Dopers)
A place I used to work at had two customers whose names I never forgot: Pervis Butt and Gada Barfus.
Gada Barfus??!!!
A friend of mine used to see a psychiatrist named Dr. Nerosis.
There was a girl at my high school named Ho Lee. You had to call her by her full name, because it would sound wrong to address her simply as “Ho.” However “Ho Lee” is still funny sounding.